Off to the Races...

Utah Horse Expo 2008...Hello allergies. My mom wanted to have another grandkid outing with the four "big" grand kiddies. She needed a little extra help just to keep them in line with the crowd, so I went along for the fun. Luckily, Papi so kindly watched Jacob ALL day long! Thanks dad. This has been a yearly event for my mom and the grandkids for the past two years. I attempted to attend last year, but do to my ridiculous allergies I had less than a fun time. But since I needed to assist my mom and to allow my daughter to have a great experience, I decided to brave the hay and horses. It turned out to be manageable. Some of our favorite highlights of the day...

Paints, fox trotters, stallions… we enjoyed the “Espanol” horse (not sure on the spelling?), it was beautiful with a long flowing tail. It was amazing. The Fresian horse…this was really stunning, large in stature, very majestic. This is really hard to try and describe with out my pamphlet to help me spell or describe what I saw…I really know absolutely nothing about horses, but thankfully my mother who owned a horse growing up and LOVES them taught me and answered all of my questions.

We then went to lunch at Rock Creek Pizza in Riverton. It was quite the experience. If any of you want to have great customer service go there. They “comped” our salad bar because they forgot to ring it up, re-baked our half raw pizza with an brand new one (even though the grandkids could care less about it being doughy!), we made a huge mess, and last but not least on our way out we decided to “help” clean up our own table. Alayna was carrying the glass red pepper shaker when right in front of the same worker who had assisted us with our previous problems. I accidentally tripped her! The glass shaker shattered across the floor, and a HUGE pile of red pepper spilled every where. I simply looked over to the super nice teenage boy and said, “That was us! Sorry...” He said with a huge smile, “Don’t worry I’ll take care of it!” I’m sure he was thinking… “Please leave before anything else happens!” Oh, the joys of attempting fun outings with children! We returned to the horse shows to see a few more routines. One that I must mention was the Vaulting…I have never in my whole life seen anything like this or even new it existed. It is seriously doing gymnastics on a horse! Yeah, standing, dancing, balancing on one leg, swirling, etc. It really is very dangerous but amazing all at once…I forgot to mention the horse is moving in a “trot” in a circle, around and around…Check it out!

Wishing summer was here!

This is a really funny picture to me...Play time was over and it was time to get ready for the night. I had asked the girls to go get their pajamas on...before I knew it only a few minutes passed by and I heard the girls laughing outside, again! They had managed to get their pajamas on and then put back on their shoes, hats, warmer clothes, and go right back outside to play. I had to laugh, at least they were obedient and were wearing their pajamas. I must had forgotten to tell them play time was over! The math doesn't add up to me...two girls...four chairs? This is the summer routine everyday. Setting up their chairs to watch the other kids play and ride their bikes. This day was the warmest yet! We are all wishing summer was here...especially these girls.

Can it get any easier than this...

Kennady Lou is the absolute easiest baby to babysit! I ran up the stairs for a few minutes and I returned to find her in this position reading to herself! She is the best smiliest little baby girl ever! Alayna enjoyed pretending she was her "baby sister!" We had a great night spending time with Kennady.

*Alayna did her own hair after her shower! Try not to laugh it was a great attempt for a two year old...I simply love the crooked purple bow!

Jacobs Newest Trick!

He has finally learned every mothers worst fear. Standing up in the crib! This is not going to be making bed times very enjoyable for him any longer! Sorry Jakey, you will just have to cry! We think he has the saddest cry face...sad huh?

What a Day...

Jacob at 9 months old! It was quite the adventure! I will be posting it soon...

I don’t know why I would expect anything different. So my sister Krista and I have started a ridiculous tradition of packing our three total kids between us in my one tiny car and attempt to have their pictures taken. As if that request of getting their pictures taken is bad enough, we assume they can endure 5 hours of other errands. It’s amazing Alayna still decides to get back in the car with us. So after we went to Wal-Mart to pick up one prescription…we thought the drive thru would be faster and easier with the three kids…but after all three kids were taking their turns screaming we just had to laugh. I’m sure as they watched us through the little camera they just had to laugh at us. Then it was off to get our pictures taken at kiddie kandids. This went fairly smoothly. Alayna managed to eat three granola bars, one bag of crackers, and other treats she found. She knew I was too preoccupied with trying to get the BEST smile out of Jacob. After an hour of picture taking we attempted to go to three more stores! The end was the best. Jacob had drunk his last bottle. So when we didn’t have any more water to make him another one, he just had to scream for 20 minutes while he watched Kennady drink hers. It was the saddest thing. But if that didn’t make his experience horrible enough…I successfully made it worse when I knocked his head with her car seat when I was taking her out of the car. Oh…why do mothers think, “Today will be different than the other day?” Maybe that’s our coping mechanism to keep trying to accomplish things out of the house. What’s funny is I know we will be attempting this again in three months I’m sure!

I felt a little guilt as a mother of torturing Alayna with this dreadful day…so I decided to let her choose her dessert of choice. She chose pudding with strawberries. Cute. I can’t say we’ve ever had it before. But as she finished her dinner I began making the pudding. She said, “I want to help…” I of course reminded her that I’d love her to help me as soon as she finished her dinner. She then picked up the pudding box and said, “The instwactions say…Mommies and kids stir!” I just had to laugh so hard, because she had tried to figure out a way that she could stir with out having to eat her dinner. Because it was so clever I let her stir while I grabbed the camera to document such a cute memory. Her little mind is always trying to figure out something!